54 BUEEAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



and lawns for several years. They get $6 a ton (delivered) for it 

 in carload lots. Manure is considered as one of the resources in 

 the best system of modern farming, and it should be taken into account 

 by anyone who is keeping goats or contemplating doing so. 



THEIR USE AS PETS. 



The purebred Angoras are very graceful, and their beautifully 

 shaped bodies and fine silky hair make them very attractive. There 

 is no animal, except possibly the horse, that is more beautiful than 

 these goats, and no animal is more cleanly in his habits. As pets for 

 children they are very popular, if they can be kept where they will be 

 harmless to vegetation and anything made of cloth. They have all 

 the propensities of the common goat for destroying fruit trees and 

 chewing any kind of cloth and of climbing upon roofs. All kinds of 

 goats are mischievous in the extreme. The Angoras are tractable and 

 are often harnessed to carts, as are common goats, and their beauty 

 makes them more desirable for this purpose. 



BY-PRODUCTS. 



In the modern methods of economic production and manufacture 

 nothing is permitted to go to waste. Whoever it was that said face- 

 tiously that the packers saved every portion of a hog but his squeal 

 spoke the whole truth. The same truth applies as well to the carcass 

 of any food animal. In the case of goats the horns hnd man}^ uses, 

 and the fat is said to be the best tallow known for the manufacture of 

 candles. Any part of the carcass not useful in any other way is con- 

 verted into fertilizer. 



LOCALITIES ADAPTED TO ANGORA CULTURE. 



So far as temperature is concerned, no place has been found that is 

 too hot or too cold for Angoras. Although not partial to heat, they 

 will stand it quite as easily as sheep. Shade is essential to success if 

 the sunshine is very warm. 



The climate in Angora, where the breed originated and is still sup- 

 posed to flourish in its more perfect state, is extreme. A temperature 

 as high as 85° F. is registered in the summer and as low as 0° F. in 

 the winter. In Cape of Good Hope, where they are thriving well, the 

 temperature goes higher in the summer, but not so low in the winter. 

 The United States presents a wider range of temperature, where, in 

 southern Texas and New Mexico, it may go above 100° F. in the sum- 

 mer, and in Idaho as low as 30° F. below zero in winter. The range 

 of localities where Angoras have done well is from Guadalupe Islands, 

 in the Lesser Antilles, to Ukamak Island, ])elonging to the Alaska Pen- 

 insula. Mr. M. L. Washburn, superintendent for the Alaska Com- 



